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If Obama wins: Will Texas secede from the union?
BizPac Review ^ | Michael Dorstewitz

Posted on 07/15/2012 3:46:27 PM PDT by cap10mike

Could Texas once again become the Republic of Texas?

Without question, the Nov. 6 election will be a do-or-die, make-or-break, Rubicon-crossing event. If the presidential election goes one way, we get a “do-over.” We’ll be given the opportunity to take the first step on a long, arduous journey back to our political and economic roots. If it goes the other way, federalism and balance of power will continue to be edged out by an overreaching federal government and an imperial presidency. Socialism will have an unbreakable hold on the economy, and a centralized government, rather than a free market, will determine business’ winners and losers.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: bho2012; election; obama; secession; texas; tx2012
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To: cap10mike

“If Obama wins: Will Texas secede from the union?”

I hope so, and hope they would look favorably on accepting a Davy Crockett brigade from Tennessee as new citizens of the Lone Star Republic.


101 posted on 07/15/2012 5:28:40 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: moonshot925
How many divisions can the Supreme Court field?

/johnny

102 posted on 07/15/2012 5:31:03 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: fahraint
there is absolutely zero in the US Constitution that prohibits secession

Correct. And that would seem to argue for the legality of secession. On the other hand, the Constitution does not mention any possible mechanism for secession. That would indicate that secession is illegal.

This is yet another case where the Founders were just plain sloppy. So it just comes down to might makes right.

103 posted on 07/15/2012 5:32:08 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern? you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: moonshot925

The Supreme Court has NEVER EVER ruled on secession, not once. If it had been illegal at the time of the War, the leaders of the CSA would have been tried for TREASON after the war, but they weren’t, because the govt was afraid the court would (correctly) rule that the South had the right to secede.

I do hope the time comes when Texas does exercise it’s God given right to be free, I’ll be happy to join the cause. If/when it does happen, I’m sure we won’t ask for permission anyway. Free people do what free people do.

My final thought is this.....10th Amendment, enough said.


104 posted on 07/15/2012 5:33:16 PM PDT by Sporke (USS Iowa BB-61)
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To: drjimmy
let's see how great those defense industries do when the only thing supporting them are Texas taxpayers.

Texas gets less back from FedGov than it pays. We'd be better off per capita without the union.

Texas is as large as France and has greater natural resources, including rare earths.

I'd be willing to take my chances.

/johnny

105 posted on 07/15/2012 5:33:57 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: RIghtwardHo; softwarecreator; cap10mike; cripplecreek; null and void
Work on real solutions (replace/ignore GOP elite)

Kinda like the Protestants???

WE COULD BE THE IGNORANTS!!!

YAY FOR US!!!!

106 posted on 07/15/2012 5:35:21 PM PDT by bigheadfred (MY PET TAPEWORM OBIWAN IS AN INSANE MILITARY HATING LEFTIST)
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To: Vermont Lt
And by what right would Texas secure the property of the US government: Arms, planes, tanks, nukes, etc.

Spoils of war or nationalization. Just like Castro did in Cuba.

Or Drake with the French ships.

/johnny

107 posted on 07/15/2012 5:38:24 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: All

If Texas secedes, why would Texans care what that USSC says, whether it’s legal or not, etc?


108 posted on 07/15/2012 5:39:49 PM PDT by Backstop73 (Always reading, seldom posting.)
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To: Backstop73
If Texas secedes, why would Texans care what that USSC says, whether it’s legal or not,

Texas hasn't seceded, but what makes you think I do give a rat's pointy little tail about what the Supremes think now? ;)

/johnny

109 posted on 07/15/2012 5:42:28 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: cap10mike

I have very bad news for you...as much as I would love and support Texas seceding from the the failed states, she will not.

Since 1980, Texas has been invaded by foreigners from her northern, western, and eastern borders...not to mention from the southern border. Texas is loosing her identity. My niece and nephews — all born and raised in Texas — like Texas, but don’t really understand what makes Texas special.

In another generation, Texas will just be another state with an identity akin to Iowa or Nevada...very very sad.


110 posted on 07/15/2012 5:42:49 PM PDT by TexasGunRunner (Palin is the gold standard for authentic conservative candidates!)
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To: moonshot925

“...except through Revolution.” Indeed.


111 posted on 07/15/2012 5:43:42 PM PDT by Astronaut
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To: Vermont Lt
Please to 'splain the trifurcation. Bifurcation, I could see, but 3?

/johnny

112 posted on 07/15/2012 5:45:09 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Sporke
The Supreme Court has NEVER EVER ruled on secession, not once.

Texas v. White made it very clear that unilaeral state succession is illegal.

The union between Texas and the other states is perpetual and indissoluble.

When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.

because the govt was afraid the court would (correctly) rule that the South had the right to secede

Then why did the court rule that Texas did NOT have the right to secede?

113 posted on 07/15/2012 5:46:27 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: Random_User_250

Its only legal if you win.


114 posted on 07/15/2012 5:46:43 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: TexasGunRunner
In another generation, Texas will just be another state with an identity akin to Iowa or Nevada...very very sad.

And I thought it was a bitch getting my head through the door...

115 posted on 07/15/2012 5:47:32 PM PDT by bigheadfred (MY PET TAPEWORM OBIWAN IS AN INSANE MILITARY HATING LEFTIST)
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To: TexasGunRunner
In another generation, Texas will just be another state with an identity akin to Iowa or Nevada

But it gets even worse. In another generation, the enire United States will just be another welfare nation, like today's Greece.

I suspect that the last bastion of western civilization will be New Zealand. Ironic, eh?

116 posted on 07/15/2012 5:49:04 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern? you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Vermont Lt

What happens in case like that is Texas would seize those assets. And most of the soldiers here would defend that decision. The US would face the decision of fighting or not.I do not believe the US would choose violence. Not only does Texas produce a lot of oil, an even larger percent that comes from overseas is refined right here.
When you choose secession, the laws of the country you are seceding from become annulled.All secessions, revolutions, civil wars, etc are illegal to one side or the other. With cities already going bankrupt and the economy getting worse, Obama will have a hard time recruiting his “army”. The ones he does get will need both hands to hold their pants up.


117 posted on 07/15/2012 5:50:03 PM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Yeeehawww!!! I like that!You can come to Texas, if you ain’t already here!


118 posted on 07/15/2012 5:52:33 PM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: Vermont Lt
And if Texas seceded , it would start a rip right up the center of the country—splitting the country in half. In the end we would have three countries, and a ton of pissed off Chinese who wonder where they will get their coupons cashed.

Can we continue to call the New America Flyover Country?

I think that would be a fine official name. "Flyover Country", it kinda rolls off the tongue. And its what the liberals already think of real America...

119 posted on 07/15/2012 5:54:12 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1271 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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To: Quickgun
"Hell, I was born here, and dad gummit, I'm gonna die here.

And no sidewindin', bushwhackin' hornswogling cracker croaker is gonna ruin my biscuit cutter!"

Amen.

/johnny

120 posted on 07/15/2012 5:57:53 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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